Clothesline



Fatented Dec. 2, 1292 2 UNHTED CHARLES E. AMES, OF MILLSAP, TEXAS.

CLO'TI-IESLINE.

Application filed November 10, 1922. Serial No. 600,124.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. Aims, a citizen of the United States, residing at Millsap in the county of Parker and State of Texas, have invented new and useful linprovements in Clotheslines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes lines, particularly to those of the metallic type, and has for its object the provision of a clothes line formed of a series of similar links con nected together or interposed in a flexible connector and so constructed as to provide clothes holding means without the employ ment of any clothes pins or the like.

An additional object is the provision of a line of this character which will be simple and inexpensive in manufacture. highly efiicient in use, durable in service and a gen eral improvement in the art.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a line con structed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a cross section on the line .22 of Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings Ihave shown the line as consisting of any desired number of links 10 each of which is formed from a single length of resilient wire bent upon itself at points spaced from the ends to define an elongated straight stretch 11, these bends being twisted as indicated at 12 to provide terminal eyes 13 which may be interengaged or which may be connected by auxiliary links or flexible members of any type preferred. Inwardly of the eyes 13. portions of the wire extend in parallel contiguous relation to the stretch 11 to define clamps 14. and each clamp portion 1 1 is formed with a coil 15 which will provide resilience. Inwardly of the coils 15, the end portions of the wire are bent at an acute angle to the stretch 11 and toward each other, as illustrated at 16. From the inner ends of the angular portions 16 the end portions of the wire extend at right angles to the stretch 11 and in contacting relation, as at 17, with the terminals coiled about the center of the stretch 11, as shown. at 18..

The line is constructed of any desired number of these links connected in any'preferred manner and the portions co-operating with the stretch 11 constitute clamps for holding the clothes to be dried without any necessity whatever for the employment of clothes pins or other auxiliary securing means. The end portions 17 operate as clamping means for holding garments or articles between them.

From the foregoing description and a.

study of the drawings it will. be apparent that I have thus provided a simply constructed and consequently very inexpensive clothes line which is entirely metallic and which will therefore have the maximum durability in addition to its ordinaryfunction as brought out above.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of the invention it is of course to be understood that I reserve the right to make such changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts as will not depart from the'spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. A clothes line comprising a series of similar links connected together and each formed from a single length of resilient wire including an elongated straight stretch twisted t0 define eyes and clamping portions lying against the straight stretch adjacent the eyes, the wire having its end portions extending toward each other from said clamping portions and at an acute angle with respect to the elongated straight stretch with the ends coiled about the central portion of the elongated straight stretch.

2. A clothes line comprising a plurality of In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES AM'ES 

